Banned Book Week
Once again, it's time to pay attention to banned books. Banned Book week will be taking place from September 27th to October 4th. Many libraries will feature displays of books challenged and in some cases, banned. It's quite interesting to see why the books have been challenged (and by interesting I mean infuriating).
You can find more information about Banned Book Week here. Note that one of the books highlighted is the fantastic Judy Blume's novel, Forever. My Mom busted my cousin, Megan, and me for reading it when we were young. I'm okay with parents deeming subject material too adult for their children. What I am most emphatically not okay with is parents deeming material unreadable for persons other than their children. So unless you're my Mom, no, you can't tell me what I can and cannot read.
Though I wonder if I ever told my mother that Forever's depiction of sex (as I remember it) was pretty unglamorous and fairly accurate, especially as regards what happened afterward. Let's just say it wasn't happily ever after.
So yay to books and boo to banning. If you see a banned book listed you haven't read, consider reading it. After all it's 100% guaranteed subversive!